FIELD SCHOOL ANNOUNCEMENT
 
The Archaeology of African Americans in Rhode Island
July 5-August 11, 1995
Casey Farm, Saunderstown, Rhode Island
 
The Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities presents a
six-week program of study at the 18th-century Casey Farm, a property
of over 300 acres on the western shore of Narragansett Bay.  The field
school will concentrate on locating and exposing the site of an
African American farm laborer's house dating to the late 18th and
early 19th centuries.  Research will consider how objects were used by
the occupants to shape their cultural identity.  Visits to other
sites, lectures, and workshops will be combined with the many phases
of archaeological field work to introduce students to survey, mapping
and recording, excavation, and artifact cataloging and conservation.
 
Faculty and lecturers include: Ann-Eliza Lewis, Project Archaeologist,
Department of Archaeology, Boston University; Myron O. Stachiw, SPNEA;
 
This program is designed for undergraduate and graduate students and
others interested in improving their skills in field archaeology.  No
previous archaeological experience is necessary.
 
Program fee is $975.  Academic credit (up to six semester hours) is
offered through Rhode Island College for an additional fee.  Housing
arrangements will be available.
 
For information write:
 
Archaeological Field School
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
141 Cambridge Street
Boston, MA 02114
phone: (617)227-3956
 
or contact:  Ann-Eliza Lewis  at [log in to unmask]